10 Jul
2005
10 Jul
'05
4:32 a.m.
> What peripgherals and OS software is available
for, or runs on,
> the Intercept? (Not the Jr board, the rack-mount job).
>
> I'm thinking it might make a comfortably modern old machine...
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Allison wrote:
You can run most base PDP-8 software. The small
difference is the
console IOTs are differently assigned but easily fixed in the code.
Its the side effect of their IO devices.
Cool! So in what way is it electrically I/O compatible? Did the
Intercept have it's own peripherals (disk, tape, etc)? Or can it
connect to some DEC buss?
All I'm thinking of is a small disk (<= 10 MB), serial stuff (paper
tape, tty) and enough memory to run really old OS stuff.
At this point I'm not very serious, certianly not acquisitive yet.
Just stockpiling ideas.